Name:
Kazuo Ishikawa-Maximillion
Aliases/ Nicknames:
Kaz, K.I.M.

Physical Description:
Kazuo is 6'0" and around 190 lbs. He has the appearance of a 19 year old. He has yellow eyes as well as green hair with grey streaks all over, causing his hair to contrast his overall appearance. Kazuo is muscular from his times working when he was still alive. Though hidden, Kazuo has a large scar running down the right side of his torso from an accident he also suffered while alive which came with him and persistently bothers him even now in death.

Zanpacto:
Normal, low-level Zanpaktou
Will eventually gain Zanpaktou: Tetsu no Izumi (Fountain of Iron)
and bankai: Hiraku Tetsu no Izumi (Expanding Fountain of Iron)

Special Accessories:
None, yet

Skills:
None

Abilities:
None

Personality:
Kazuo is an extremely peaceful and calm man, almost on the verge of pacifist. He fights only hollows and even then, only if they attack him, an ally or an innocent person first. But once attacked, he will fight to defeat all hollows that stand against the innocent. Kazuo enjoys to relax and help others relax while also being relied on to calm the fears of others. Kazuo is an incredibly loyal man who is willing to die to protect someone and for the honor of Soul Society than run away if it leads to deaths.

Biography/History:
Kazuo was born in Kyoto and lived there with his mother after his father died before he was two. He grew up playing soccer and baseball with his friends and going to school like normal kids. Later on, his mother remarried an American business man and they moved to New York at age 11. Unfortunately, the company his stepfather worked for filed for bankruptcy and lost his job. So, he began to work in a factory illegally at 18 years old, working with molten iron, lead, gold, silver and other minerals. On the fateful day, inspectors came to check all workers and everyone who was working illegally was forced to run from them. He too had to run away but was cornered by several of the inspectors before he jumped over the railing and fell into the molten iron, preferring to die than disgrace his family.

He woke up lying next to the very tank of molten liquid that had killed him. After a few minutes, some shinigami appeared to him and told him he would be sent to Soul Society. Kazuo wasn't sure what to say but figured he had nowhere else to go. He grew up in a modest lifestyle in Rukongai since everyone would hire him because of the hard work he did and paid him well for it, compared to others. Kazuo was sent to the academy after being seen holding off several lesser hollows from attacking civilians until shinigami arrived, when he then fainted from exhaustion. After full day, Kazuo woke up in an auxilliary infirmary tent and to a letter from the shinigamis who had arrived, saying they had worked something out allowing Kazuo Ishigawa Maximillion to train at the Soul Reaper Academy. Now, fresh out of the Academy, he is looking to join a squad of the Gotei 13.

Powers:
None